A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See OTOMY.—He looked as pleasant as the pains of death.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
death hunter * deep-oneNathan Bailey's 1721 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes